Pretty cool old wine ad I stumbled across yesterday. I took Marie to see "Jersey Boys" last night, so blogging is light. Great musical, btw.
Making Atheists
It's hard to believe in a benevolent creator when you hear stories like this:
Among the casualties of the Argyle building fire last month were 6,800 wine bottles and 1,400 beer containers at The Wine Merchant.
All of them, full of beverage, are headed to a landfill, Wine Merchant co-owner Dan Matheny says. Their total value has not yet been assessed, but some individual wine bottles were worth $700.
All were contaminated with smoke from the Argyle, located just north of The Wine Merchant.
Wine corks and even screw caps are made to breathe to aid aging, he said. So the bottles breathed in the smoke. The contamination worsened when heavy smoke shut down The Wine Merchant's temperature controls, exposing the wines in the ensuing days to the weather's temperature fluctuations from freezing to near 70.
Corks, screw caps and bottles contracted and expanded in the rising and falling temperatures, allowing yet more smoke to seep into bottles.
